Joshua Newell

“In the Code of Canon Law, it states clearly: 'A person who is conscious of grave sin is not to celebrate Mass or receive the body of the Lord without previous sacramental confession.' I haven’t attended confession in well over a decade, and that’s less because of dogmatic conflict than it is because of moral cowardice. Deeper than that, maybe I don’t want to be forgiven. I want to be punished. Which may be just about the most selfish, egotistical thought I’ve ever had. I’m sick with self-love. Or self-loathing. After all, they’re both essentially the same thing.”
― Phillip Andrew Bennett Low, Indecision Now! A Libertarian Rage

“You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“The ego taunts truth with sarcasm.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“No act is so private it does not seek applause.”
― John Updike, Couples